Maulana Ziauddin Madani

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{{Infobox religious biography | honorific-prefix = Qutb e Medina
[[Mawlānā | name = Ziauddin Madani | honorific-suffix = | native_name = قطب مدینہ مولانا ضیاء الدین مدنی | image = Ziauddin Madani.jpg | caption = | religion = Islam | denomination = Sufi (Qadri) | school = Hanafi | lineage = Siddiqui | title = Qutb e Medina | period = | father = | spouse = | children = Sayyid Ridwan al-Madani | post = Sufi and mystic | relatives = | influences = Imam Abu Hanifa
Abdul Qadir Gilani
Imam Ahmad Raza Khan | influenced = Ilyas Qadri
Muhammad Tahir-ul-Qadri
| birth_date = 1877 | birth_place = Sialkot, Punjab, British India | death_date = 2 October 1981(1981-10-02) (aged 103–104) | death_place = Medina, Saudi Arabia | resting_place = Al-Baqi, Medina
present-day Saudi Arabia }}

Maulana Ziauddin Madani (Urdu: قطب مدینہ مولانا ضیاء الدین مدنی) was a Sufi also known as Qutb-e-Madina. He lived most of his life in Medina. He was born in 1877 in Sialkot and died on 2 October 1981. He was buried in Al-Baqi.

He was an Islamic scholar and disciple of Imam Ahmad Raza Khan. He was the spiritual teacher of Ilyas Qadri.[1][2] He is in the descendant line from Hazrat Abu Bakar Saddiq.

Brief Life[]

Ziauddin Madani was born in Sialkot, a city in Pakistan, in 1877 A.D. (1294 AH). He got his early education from Sialkot and Lahore. He studied for four years in Pilibhit (Uttar Pradesh, India) and got his Islamic education under the supervision of Allamah Maulana Wasee Ahmad Muhaddis Soorti.[2] He went to Karachi. After some time, travelled to Baghdad, Iraq to take blessings from Ghaus e Azam. He lived for 4 years and then went to Medina in 1900. He stayed in Medina for almost 77 years. He died on 2 October 1981.[2] He is buried in the famous sacred cemetery of Medina Jannat ul Baqee.

Bay’at and Khilafat[]

He took the oath of spiritual allegiance (Bay’at) from Aalahazrat Imam Ahmad Raza Khan of Bareily, who was the Mujaddid of 14th century, in silsila e Qadriya, silsila of Ghaus e Azam Shaykh Abdul Qadir Jilani.[3] He was granted Khilafat by Aalahazrat Ahmad Raza at the age of 21 years.[2] He was also granted Khilafa from Imam Yusuf al-Nabhani, who was also Mujaddid of Arab world.

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References[]

  1. ^ "The Truth behind Deobandi-Barailavi Differences: The Sahaba-e-Karam too differed but never engaged in Takfir | Nadeemul Wajidee, Tr. by Raihan Nezami, NewAgeIsla". www.newageislam.com.
  2. ^ a b c d "Brief Introduction of Hazrat Allama Ziauddin Madani". www.ziaetaiba.com.
  3. ^ "Biography of Sayyidi Qutb-e-Madinah". www.dawateislami.net.


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